Cape Perpetua Visitor Center - Siuslaw National Forest

While driving along the beautiful Oregon coast, this spot was a perfect place to take a break. There are plenty of trail options, easy access to the shoreline, and it’s a great idea to stop here first to gather information before exploring further. Inside, there are exhibits showcasing native trees and plants, along with telescopes that make it easy to take in the surrounding views. There’s also a small gift shop, and I’d highly recommend this place to anyone traveling with kids. It’s both educational and scenic—the views from the observation deck are stunning, and there are well-designed indoor and outdoor areas for enjoying the landscape.

Amazing views, giant bay windows to whale watch, 26 miles of trails from easy to difficult. Never a dull moment up here! If you have the National Parks “America the beautiful” pass put it in your dashboard signature side up and save yourself a trip back to your car. Volunteer Staff are really nice and very helpful with information. 😊

Heads up, rookies! You can get the National Park interagency past here, which I had an ink you might be the case but was an awesome surprise! There are a few super cool trails within a few hundred feet and/or within a quarter mile from here that I highly recommend also, and I included pictures of those which you can check out with the reviews right before this review to see which ones specifically the pictures are of. Note: The gal behind the counter needs to pick up the pace a little bit, though - watching her check the person out ahead of me (who bought a bunch of junk) was like putting an audiobook on .25 x speed.- couldn't have been more unnecessarily methodical or sloth like - pick up the pace lady, especially if there is a line forming. Only Jesus was perfect, though, and I shouldn't judge, but sometimes you got to turn the money tables over to wake people up and reflect a little.

Great little nature center, on the way to the Giant Spruce and down to Thor's Well. If you have an America the Beautiful National Parks pass, your parking is completely covered by it, just ask one of the park rangers.

Thank you to the ranger at the visitors center who told us where to find tide pools!!! They were epic!!!

An interesting center to learn additional information about the area. You can take a short half mile trail to gonoutvto thors well or continue to drive south on 101 to get to cook chasm and thebmn thirs well will be right off the parking lot

Cape Perpetual makes for a lovely and easy hike. Thor's well is on one of the hikes, but it's not terribly advertised, so you could see it and not even realize it's there. Bring a water bottle, because they don't sell drinks in the museum gift shop, just metal water bottles for $30. They are nice bottles.

Visitor Center is really nice, the view inside is amazing and there is plenty of insight into the Siuslaw National Forest. Plenty of parking and trail maps. Trails are maintained and marked well.